[lojban-beginners] Re: More Lojban word queries

["Chris Howlett" <chris@balcomie.freeserve.co.uk>]

Ah, I see. That, then, is more useful. I assume it has an attendent
terminator?

Chris.

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> Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: More Lojban word queries
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> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:30:26PM +0100, Chris Howlett wrote:
> > Ok, I more-or-less get "tu'a" and "la'e" now, but "sei" is still 
> > eluding me. Surely the example you just gave would be translated as 
> > (roughly) "zo .oinai cu se cusku la meiris."?
> 
> That's one way to do it.  The other way is:
> 
> lu .oi nai sei se cusku la meiris li'u
> 
> This comes up when translating *very* long pieces of 
> quotation with "...", said Alice, "..." in the middle.
> 
> -Robin
> 
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